US President Donald Trump said that he intends to investigate media reports that the US military intentionally killed survivors of an attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea in September.
“We will investigate“, the American leader responded to journalists' requests for comment on a Washington Post article.
The newspaper, citing its sources, reported that in early September, Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the death of all people on board a boat in the southern Caribbean. According to the US, it was transporting drugs. According to the publication, the US military carried out two strikes on September 2. The first was to destroy the boat, which had 11 people on board. The second was carried out to kill two survivors who were in the water and were clinging to the wreckage of the vessel.
“I don't know if that happened“, Trump added. “I intend to find out. But Pete said he did not give the order to kill those two people“, he said.
As the chief of staff in Washington noted, Hegseth claims that “that did not happen“. “But no, I would not want that“, Trump stressed, answering a question about whether he thought the United States should have carried out a second strike against the survivors of the first.